Post 1811319 by alcinnz@floss.social
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(DIR) Post #1809404 by alcinnz@floss.social
2018-12-07T19:49:08Z
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Wow! I keep wishing the Five Eyes could be disastablished and replaced by people who actually do their jobs effectively rather than pushing dangerous laws make us all less safe not more.Someone who acknowledges that it wasn't due to encryption that intelligence agencies missed terrorist activities like the Paris attacks.
(DIR) Post #1809557 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T19:55:01Z
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@alcinnz I recommend reading Phillip Knightley’s “The Second Oldest Profession”. Documenting a long history of intelligence agencies using their failure as an excuse for more power, just for the sake of more power. In the politics of fear, it’s a strategy that always wins
(DIR) Post #1810204 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T19:57:55Z
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@alcinnz change probably begins with people not being so fucking scared so easily. It’s probably a Western cultural thing (or perhaps a colonial thing) and I am pessimistic about it changing anytime soon
(DIR) Post #1810205 by alcinnz@floss.social
2018-12-07T20:10:51Z
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@mig5 I wonder if it'd help if more people watched anti war-on-terror media. Wouldn't fix it on it's own.Doctor Who has a few good ones, which now has my wondering how those allegories gel with the government who funded it.
(DIR) Post #1810382 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T20:15:38Z
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@alcinnz maybe. But a key ingredient of fear is a self-perception of fragility eg things that are dear that might be taken away by ‘bad people’. Maybe another crucial step is to have less stuff, or to put another way, find value in elements of life that are less tangible and so harder to imagine being take away. Needs a bigger cultural shift? I’m probably still oversimplifying it
(DIR) Post #1810751 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T20:17:22Z
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@alcinnz that’s what I meant by the colonial mindset - an unconscious recognition that our very way of life was obtained dishonestly - wonder if this contributes to a fear or sense of fragility that someone might come and take it all away
(DIR) Post #1810752 by mig5@mamot.fr
2018-12-07T20:19:17Z
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@alcinnz (which is then easily preyed upon by the powers that be). “Give us more power and we’ll protect you so that won’t ever happen” and now your way of life is just poisoned with a different sort of terror: surveillance
(DIR) Post #1811319 by alcinnz@floss.social
2018-12-07T20:40:26Z
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@mig5 While I'm certainly watching for these laws to crop up here, this could help explain why I feel New Zealand to be the least likely of the Five Eyes to pass these laws.Here we actively acknowledge that we settled this land dishonestly, and have long been busy figuring out how to make it up to the indigenous Moari.That acknowledgement and our relative geological safety (so far from everywhere) reduces our fear.
(DIR) Post #1923696 by kavbojka@mastodon.social
2018-12-12T03:08:06Z
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@alcinnzI think the best part of the documentary Accidental Anarchist is just watching the scales fall from Carne Ross's eyes. Like "Wow, this is just a group of lying liars."
(DIR) Post #1923802 by alcinnz@floss.social
2018-12-12T03:15:43Z
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@kavbojka O.K., I'll add that to my reading list.Something I quite enjoyed when I put 2 and 2 together, is that Doctor Who appears to be against the War on Terror. Russel T Davies' Slytheen represents the fear mongering politicians and Steven Moffat's take on the Zygons represents their scape goats. In hindsight it seems extremely obvious.